Lemon law does nor apply since I am the second owner BUT I do have legal standing under the warranty.

 

Well I am on my fourth dealer to get the panic button to work. Before I finish the story let me give you some other info which may help others with future problems. First I am NOT the orginal owner of this car. I bought it with 7000 miles on it and was the third owner. It was a certified used car and it has the remainder of the 3/36000 and a new life time waranty on the power train which I purchased from Chrysler. I tested the panic button after reading on the Forum that people were having problems with the sirens. If I had not read that here I would never had pushed the panic button in a million years. I also have a 7/100000 extended warranty on it. Doing research I found out the panic button was a problem on the car at about 3000 miles. It was supposely fixed or my best guess is the then owner gave up. Who in their right mind would spend 4 months trying to get something as insignificant fixed. Someone asked about a lemon law, it MUST be a critical element that effects the car or you do have standing under the law. Well that said, I took the car back to where I purchased it because someone told me they were great on Xfires and I had exhausted all the dealers within 2 hours of my house. By the way if you live in the Phoenix area if you ever have a problem go to Airpark Chrysler in Scottsdale and see Maureen Working and/or Brian Reich. I visited with them last week while I was getting my Mercedes serviced near them. They worked on the car for two hours yesterday and then gave me FREE a rental so I could drive home 3 hours. They called me at 4 PM yesterday and told me the car was fixed. I picked it up today and I am passing on exactly what was on my work order. I suggest you file this somewhere if you ever have a need to reprogram any electrical module in the Xfire. It is a gift you will not find in any service manual. I believe this will work on any of the modules. Things are supposed to work automatically but remember Murphy's law or the Law of Unintended Consequences.

PANIC BUTTON INOP. CUSTOMER THINKS COUNTRY CODES ARE IN ERROR. TESTED 3 OWNER SUPPLIED REMOTES. ALL CHECKED OUT. SET ALARM AND OPEN DOOR FROM THE INSIDE TO VERIFY THE ALARM SIREN IS HOOKED UP AND OPERATIONAL. FOUND ON LINE CASE KO03559811. FOUND PANIC ALARM ENABLED IN THE SKREEM MODULE. DISABLED AND REENABLED ALARM, STILL INOP. ALL SETTINGS IN SKREEM, BCM AND CLP SHOW PANIC ALARM ALLOWED. CONTACT TECH REP SCOTT MILLER AND ADVISED TO RESET COUNTRY CODES IN ALL MODULES FROM USA AND THEN BACK TO USA. STILL INOP. CONTACT STAR AND ADVISED TO USE DRB SCAN TOOL INSTEAD OF STAR SCAN AND BE SURE THAT PANIC ALARM IS AUTHORIZED IN VEHICLE THEFT ALARM. BLOCKED SETTINGS AND REAUTHORIZED, ALARM STILL INOP. CHANGED ALL VEHICLE SETTING UNDER MODULE SERVICE REPLACEMENT FOR BCM, SKREEM, AND CLP AND THEN REPROGRAMED VEHICLE BACK TO VEHICLE CONFIGURATION. AFTER RESETTING THE CENTRAL LOCKING PUMP PROGRAM, PANIC ALARM IS OPERATIONAL.

Hope this little trick helps someone down the line. Many years ago, I lost two friends when the default was set in a aircraft's flight control software. It was programed to pitch down with a lose of electrical power and another when it was found that a computer programer had put in a "G" limit in the flight software so us pilots would not over G the aircraft. Both of these are deadly near the ground or when trying to pull off a target when you pressed the limits to ensure that the bombs were on target BUT to a programer they were just a computer program switches.

 

Thanks for that. Filed in my "Crossfire Stuff" folder.

 

Good job,

You pushed it until you found the right tech.

I believe I have read about others having this same problem.

Thanks for posting solution.